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The American Concrete Institute

Founded in 1904 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, the American Concrete Institute is a leading authority and resource worldwide for the development, dissemination, and adoption of its consensus-based standards, technical resources, educational programs, and proven expertise for individuals and organizations involved in concrete design, construction, and materials, who share a commitment to pursuing the best use of concrete.

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The International Concrete Abstracts Portal is an ACI led collaboration with leading technical organizations from within the international concrete industry and offers the most comprehensive collection of published concrete abstracts.

Abstract:This report describes laboratory and field tests on the corrosion preventive effects of resin coating, galvanizing, cathodic protection, concrete surface coating and commercial inhibitors used as a protection measures for steel in concrete. The following conclusions were drawn from the test results: (1) The best in protective performance among the epoxy coatings is the powder epoxy. For protective performance, a coating thickness of 150um or greater is required, but for good bond to concrete, the thickness is preferably less than 150um. Thus the coating thickness of 150um is considered to be optimum. The liquid type tar epoxy coating is not satisfactory in its protective performance or for bond to concrete. (2) Galvanization gives good protective performance but is not always satisfactory at the splash zone. (3) Cathodic protection has an excellent protective effect in the tidal area and in seawater. The voltage to be applied is preferably -1000 to -1200mV. When it is higher than -800mV, the effect is not satisfactory, and when lower than -1500 mV, over-protection may result. (4) Urethane coating over the concrete surface failed to give a satisfactory cutoff effect in the tests and proved to be of no protective value. (5) Sodium sulfite series inhibitors had no protective effect.